Definition of Tub

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Definition of Tub

Tub

An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes.

The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc.

Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously.

A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.

A small cask; as, a tub of gin.

A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.

To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.

To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.

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Tub Quotations

I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.
Shania Twain

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.
Jeff Foxworthy

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
Charles Caleb Colton

If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.
Neve Campbell

I lay on the ground, but then I can't reach - I don't want to take my foot out of the tub - but I've got to call somebody because I've got to get a band-aid or something to stop the bleeding.
Danny DeVito

I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.
Brian Austin Green

You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub.
Keith Carradine

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.
Claudette Colbert

Every tub must stand upon its bottom.
Charles Macklin

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
Jane Smiley

Tub Translations

tub in Afrikaans is bak
tub in Danish is kar
tub in Dutch is bak, tobbe, teil, kuip
tub in French is cuve
tub in Latin is lacus
tub in Swedish is kar, badkar, balja

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